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Tags : beijing, china, Olympic Games
This time it’s fake minorities [Olympics]
Following on the in the footsteps of fake fireworks, a fake singer, and fake 16 year old gymnasts, the latest fake scandal involving the Olympic games is delivered by fake minorities.
According to reports, the children appearing in costumes representing China’s 55 minority groups at the Olympic opening ceremony were fake. The children were performers from the Galaxy Children’s Art Troupe, a group that only includes children drawn from the Han Chinese majority. According to Wikipedia, China has 55 minority groups consisting of an official figure of 123.33 million people, or 9.4% of the population. Visually some of the minority groups have little differences to the Han population, but others are distinctly different, including a Russian minority who are white.
There is delicious irony in China showing the word that it embraces its minority groups by showing fake minority group members. Even those with pro-Chinese sympathies will shake their heads at this.
It also begs the question: is anything at the Olympics real? There have been allegations of biased judging, empty stadiums, promises of foreign press freedom that has seen journalists beaten, boards hiding construction sites and obvious poverty… and probably a whole range of other things covered or faked as well. China could have used these games to highlight the good in the country, but in their own controlling paranoia they are actually causing more negative press than would have otherwise been the case.
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a more mature view of those ceremonies from kevin kelly. ... http://kk.org/ct2/2008/08/metowe-opening-ceremonies.php
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This one wasn't even on my radar. I knew immediately from looking at the group that they weren't actual minorities, and the NBC announcers said they were wearing costumes to REPRESENT the various groups. I swear it's like combing for lice at this point. Yes, there have been some MAJOR issues with these games. I don't think that this sort of nitpicking does anything but shift the focus from the bigger issues.
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I'm sure they would prefer these distractions over the important ones like Tibet! The nerve of them to have a 3rd of opening cereminies about Buddhism, was beyond arrogance to me.
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